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Screwed by the Hall of Fame FULL Topic

A lot of blood and pages have been spilled discussing whether certain borderline players deserve induction to the hall of fame. This league is not like that. Instead I want to focus on the good to great players who were rudely given the heave-ho after only one year of eligibility. There are some great players out there who failed to even get 5% of the hall of fame vote in their first year of eligibility and were removed from the ballot after one year of eligibility. And, sure, most of them weren't hall of fame players to begin with, but they deserved better.

This league will only deal with position players who were snubbed. To judge each player's quality, we will be using Baseball Reference's all time WAR leaderboard. It isn't perfect, but it gives a good snapshot of how good each player was during their career. I'm going to make the cutoff for selecting your players at 35 WAR. Any player who has reached hall of fame eligibility, was voted on by the BBWAA, and did not receive enough votes to stay on the ballot past one year is available for selection. I trust you guys to be able to search the list and make your selections.

When you select your player, go through the list and find the Hall of Famer with the closest WAR. The rest of your team will consist of teammates of these two players, no twisting. You must choose at least 10 teammates of each player and the ballpark must be one your snub played in. Standard alignment. $100M cap. No AAA, no clones, no DH, no trades, no injuries. Hopefully we get a nice mix of players here. I'll make my selection 12th.

**Note that I probably wasn't clear enough originally. Only snubs who were removed from the ballot after one year are eligible. I was not aware that rules were different in the past and that players used to be kept on the ballots even after receiving less than 5% of the vote.**

So if I understand this correctly...
Let's say I select Darryl Strawberry, who received 1.2% of the BBWAA vote in 2005.
His WAR is 39.2. The closest WAR of a Hall-of-Famer is Roger Bresnahan at 39.1.
My roster must consist of those two players plus teammates of those two players during years that they were actually teammates (not twisted) with a minimum of ten players from each focal-point player.

Posted by dodgebob on 11/30/2012 12:59:00 PM (view original):So if I understand this correctly...
Let's say I select Darryl Strawberry, who received 1.2% of the BBWAA vote in 2005.
His WAR is 39.2. The closest WAR of a Hall-of-Famer is Roger Bresnahan at 39.1.
My roster must consist of those two players plus teammates of those two players during years that they were actually teammates (not twisted) with a minimum of ten players from each focal-point player.

The rule that ends eligibility for players with less than 5 percent support on the first ballot began with the class of 1978. Can we assume that this league will be based on hof elections only after that date?
Here is a link to hof ballot results: http://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/hof_1978.shtml

Posted by dcmatcheck on 12/3/2012 12:50:00 PM (view original):The rule that ends eligibility for players with less than 5 percent support on the first ballot began with the class of 1978. Can we assume that this league will be based on hof elections only after that date?
Here is a link to hof ballot results: http://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/hof_1978.shtml

Yes. The requirement is that they were on the ballot one year and then removed.